The Republic of Poland and the Republic of Fiji formalised diplomatic relations at a ceremony at the Permanent Mission of Poland to the United Nations in New York on 11July, 2014. The Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations, AmbassadorRyszardSarkowiczand his Fiji counterpart, Ambassador Peter Thomson, signed a joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between the two States.

At the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development in New York today, Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Peter Thomson, delivered Fiji’s statement on the theme of charting the way towards an ambitious Post-2015 Development Agenda.

It is my honour to deliver this statement on behalf of Fiji and its fraternal Melanesian neighbours Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu , to the High Level Political Forum on the selected theme of “Achieving the MDGs and charting the way for an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, including the SDGs”.